SUESURIBRES, At the instance of the Viceroy at Nankin; the system of raising funds by the bestowal of dignities, ete., upon subseribersto Famine Relief, was introduced in Chekiang and Kiangsu for a period of six months, the limit of time being afterwards extended to nine months. This lis now expired, but as one tenth of the number of subscribers have not yet received rewards, the Governor asks for a further extension till the end of the present year, ty enable him to check the amounts and assign to the donors the appropriate rewards, Many of the sub-{scriptions came from distant provinees and the references required for ascertaining the particulars consumed time. The Governor mentions that the total amount of funds raised during the nine months that the system was in operation reached the Inrge sum of Tls. 1,100,000.
24th September, PATROL OF THE COREAN FRONTIER, The Military Governor "t Moukden reports the completion of the summer inspection of the border land between Corea and China, These inspections. take place every quarter, and those held in summer and autumn are conducted by a Commission composed of Covean and Chinese officials, The date ut the inspection in notified beforehand to thw King of Corea by the Board of Rites at Moukden, and arrangements are made for the meeting on the frontier of the Commissioners from both countries. After the inspection is completed, the Corean representative Araws up a stamped document certifying that the frontier is quiet, and this is forwarded to the Governor at Moukden through the Chinese Commissioner, 25th September.
POSTRUMOLS HONOUKS TOA PREPECT, The Viceroy at Nanking and the Governor of Kiangsu submit @ memorial in which they request the bestowal of posthumous honour upon, Chien Tech'éng formerly Prefect of Chinkiang, Ch'angchow and a number of other places in the sume province. The deceased officer came to Kiangsu in 1840s Assistant Magistrate of Wu Hsien and was soon promoted to be acting magistrate of the Kaoch'un district, where he instituted a new method of doing judicial husiness and disposed of over 200 outstanding ceases in the space of two months. The district was exposed tothe Yangtze floods andre devoted much attention to the preservation of the dykes erected by the people, exposing himself to all kinds of weather in the sion of the work. As magistrate of ugp't_and Chinkuei he subsequently exerted himself in lightening the burdens of taxation falling upon the people, equalising the incidence of the land tax and abolishing a number of illegal perquisites connected with its levy. The yentry whose interests were atficted by his reforms offered the most determined opposition to his system of administration, but he adhered to his plans with a firmness which no opposition could shake. While administering: the government of Tsungming he did mud to improve the morals of the rude island population by sternly putting down the practice of disregarding the interment of the dead, He not only required the burial of relatives within a fixed time, but raised funds for purchasing and laying out a public cemetery. It was while governing the island that he beat to death the notorious pirate Huang Liu-long and dispersed his confederates, to the great peace and comfort of the district. His subsequent career as a Prefect was attended with no less Denefit to the country over which he ruled. The land tax in the Sungehiang
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.